AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10562, 17 September 1910, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

! [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] I (Per Press Association.) > • PENNY-A-AVORD CABLES. '. Received September 17, at 5.55 a.m. ; Melbourne, September 17. - The Postmaster-General approves Air - Henniker-Heaton's suggested conference : of European Postmasters-General to » discuss penny-a-word cables. He says he has always favored cheap cables. The first step so far as Australia is concerned would be to have State-owned J cables to connect across Canada with i tho Pacific cable. Ho was extremely „■ anxious to see that established; then it J would be possible to reduce the rates to 9d or even 6d a word. He believed a ' 9d rate would pay if the cable was used '. during tho whole 24 hours. A reduction to Id would come if some means J were discovered of sending cables at a. quicker rate. Ho wanted to see the cable service used not only by million--3 aires but by the millions. AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. r Melbourne, September 17. v - A Cabinet meeting resulted in the . healing of differences that had shown , themselves in the Ministerial party -j over tho question of the taxation of . Crown leaseholds under tho Land Tax Bill. After the meeting an explanation ' was given that there would bo no taxa--1 tion of these leaseholds. i The House of Representatives carried \ the debate on the Bill a stage further, [) and then adjourned till Tuesday. s Received September 17, at 9.45 a.m. ' Perth, September 17. - " ASr Wilson has reconstructed the ', Ministry. Air -Wilson becomes Premier and Treasurer.. Air Dalgloish Minister of Works, and the remaining portfolios are unchanged. : TO NATIONALISE THE HOSPITALS. Brisbane, September 17. i. A movement has been started to j nationalise the. hospitals. The Home , Secretary declared that if nationalisaj tion were adopted every person in tho '. community should be called upon" to , pay proportionately. \ EARTH .TREMORS. Received September 17, at 9.45 a.m. • -- Sydney, September 17. Several earth tremors in Sydney and • Melbourne have been recorded during • the iiast week, but none were severe. ENORMOUS LAND SLIDE. Melbourne, September 17. ! Au enormous landslip has occurred . at Trawool, ten acres from a spur of '• the Tallarook Ranges crashing down a hillside bodily with a thunderous roar. Several persons had narrow escapes. ABORIGINAL RAID. Perth, September 17. The police have captured five of the Laverton raiders. The raid is attributed to the decision of other tribes to take combined action to punish flag- • rant disregard of the native law of inter-marriage by the Laverton tribe, which the Lavei'tons forestalled.